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[G1 Android Development] sam008:
hey guys

i'm traveling to a location for 2-3 days and the roaming & data access charges are exorbitant. I already have created a my maps in google maps showing all my favorite restaurants. Can i somehow display this in google maps along with GPS?

I'm guessing gps would be free and if i turn off my cellular service, i won't be able to get google maps to show. However, is there a way to download the maps for a particular area and cache it? Any other application i could download and overlay my restaurants on it?

Thanks
[G1 Android Development] frankwhitten:
I believe there is an app that lets you do that.

Here is the link:

http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.nevilon2.bigplanet
[G1 Android Development] sam008:
Thanks for your quick response. It doesn't seem to allow Hey loading up my customized maps which i have saved in My maps on google onto this app

Thanks
[G1 Android Development] momentarylapseofreason:
Hmmmmmmmm.....

This gets me thinking. Though it would take a longggggg time... If someone were to cache an entire area on their computer, would it not be possible to copy that cache to the SD card? Then you could use the Map cache?

Perhaps that sounds pretty vague, but how hard would it really be? The map cache is already able to be moved onto the SD?
[G1 Android Development] vishurao:
All ready tried that. Had to write my own app to use the maps and i could only locate myself on the map. No Routes, no meta data.

Adding those tiles to gmaps cache is what is tough.
[G1 General] question.com:
Anyone else having bad service? I currently have the latest radio, js 1.5 build. Its been going on for like a week. I'm debating on switching back to the previous radio to see if that will fix the problem. I'm also guessing maybe it has to do with the lx just being released.
[G1 General] dta1974:
My G1 is going nuts switching to Edge and GPRS back and forth for the last 2 days.
[G1 General] question.com:
i just reflashed the latest radio, and everything seems fine again
[G1 General] padalabra:
I've had network disconnection issues with the 2.22.19.26I radio so I flashed back to the 2.22.19.23 & all has been well so far.

FYI: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=515624
[G1 General] momentarylapseofreason:
Although I am not 100% sure on how this works, I called T-Mobile and had them "reset my connection". Had to turn the phone off for 5 minutes and when I booted up, I have had zero issues since.

She said sometimes the phone will find a tower and get "locked" to it. If you go outside of it's range, you lose your signal. Not sure exactly what the real truth behind this is but whatever she did fixed the problems...

Running 26I
[G1 General] mastermindg:
I'm using 2.22.19.26I radio on JDv1.5 and haven't had any problems. I reboot frequently, though, not sure if there's anything there.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Sprintguy1376:
Hey, new to the forums. Everything here is pretty awesome too. Learned how to flash my ROM and radio through here and found various fixes! But unfortunately, I have one problem.

I searched before I asked, google too! Promise!

I installed a WM 6.5 ROM (Energy ROM) and this favorites tab seems to be pretty useful... Except that I can't add any programs to it. When I tap change, it shows a list of apps (mostly shortcuts to various things that are useless) But no way to add my own favorites. I'd love to have BeeJive and Opera in the favorites tab but I can't seem to add them in here. Advice and help would be great.

Thanks a lot.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] showaco:
Check in the development and hacking forum, I think there is a custom panel called "cLauncher" that will let you set up any links. If not, try using chome editor to add any panels/links you need.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] Sprintguy1376:
The cLauncher program was great! Thanks a lot.
[G1 Apps and Games] pypen:
Hi there,

i had often the problem that i was listening to music and suddenly my phone turned off,because the battery was empty. So i wrote a small app ,where you can set a threshold and set up notifications (sound, vibration, status bar). You can also get a notification, as soon as the phone is fully charged.

Actually, i made this app for me. But since i am done now, i dont have any motivation to make something new.

So maybe you guys have some suggestions etc.

PS: I am especially proud of the self painted icon :D
[G1 Apps and Games] shadowhacker27:
thank you for this
[P3600 Software Upgrading] SilverSurferSSJ:
Hey Trinity users, I just bought a trinity recently and have upgraded the software. I was just wondering how to get some more bands on my phone.

I searched around and could not find much. But I am guessing you should be able to lock on to UMTS 850 + 2100 especially if you are with 3mobile in Australia and want to use the Telstra Roaming.

Any help would be appreciated! Cheers!
[P3600 Software Upgrading] abbojee:
http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=167835&stc=1&d=1237455609
[P3600 Software Upgrading] yanivkn:
Patch - All Band Types.cab do not works in my trinity for 850 Mhz...

need help.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] ndk2k4:
Hey guys, so here is my problem. The font color of the album name, etc (the stuff under the seek bar) is the default gray color. The song name in white on top is fine, but the gray is almost invisible with my screen setup. How would I go about changing that text to black or something. The closest thing I found in the registry is a place to see where stuff in the player is located, but nothing about font colors.

If im being stupid and unclear, just say so, Ill rephrase.

Thanks in advance for your help guys.
[G1 Android Development] Darrien13:
kila-user 1.5 plat 154585

ota-rel-keys,release-keys

THATS WHAT I GOT FROM SOMEONE WHO HAS CUPCAKE!!
[G1 Android Development] CBowley:
Good job?... now GET THE LINK. Everything else is un-important.
[G1 Android Development] Darrien13:
I dont know how to make of the link thats why i posted it here
[G1 Android Development] NPS_CA:
Build Number doesn't help...

For those who AnyCut Device Info, it WILL show the download filename if the pop up occurs and you accept , switch to Device Info and the filename appears under "download status" while the download occurs

Handy for those who don't have ADB... this is how I captured it last time

That filename will likely be hosted here:

https://android.clients.google.com/updates/(filename)
[G1 Android Development] momentarylapseofreason:
PM Sent..... Catch me on Google or AIM. I will show you how to use LogCat step by step in order to get the URL.

You will need the SDK first... so grab that :)
[G1 Android Development] n1gh7m4r3:
or he could just download log collector from the market
[G1 Android Development] DOHCtor:
so exciting lol
[G1 Android Development] Superatim:
Original post is on this page....

http://androidforums.com/updates-cupcakes/4973-omg-i-just-got-updated-updated-cupcake-thread-7.html

I have a hard time believing this guy.... but..... You never know, it could be legit... send me a PM if someone gets the link, I can host it on my server that has 1000 TB of bandwidth a month.... that way Google doesn't shut it down...
[G1 Android Development] sir*mez:
wwhhoooo hoooo!!!! I hope your getting the help you need!! I love xda... i dont even know why i lurk so much!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] swissman:
Hello World,

Though I was happy with my HD (which is about to be sold) I was waiting the TD2 for long. It's really a great device but seems still to have quite a lot of bugs. One of these is the radio

I know everybody will tell me to wait for a new radio version BUT for those who basically have not a good signal at home or work, I'm not recommending them to buy it untill updates are available..

I've 3 phones with me, one 5 yo Sony Ericsson phone, on Blackberry for work and my TD2 for private use. Where my old Sony Ericsson shows full signal, my Blackberry as well, the Touch Diamond 2 shows a poor 1 bar (!). Sometimes I even have no signal where the others are showing 4 bars.. Well, that's one (if not the) worse phone signal reception I've ever seen.

The same for WiFi... where my HD or my netbook showed full signal, the TD2 shows 1/2 bars, even if the settings are set on "better performance" instead of "better battery"

My ROM version is: 1.39.406.0 (47382) FRE (04/07/09)

My Radio version: 3.43.25.19

Sorry but I had to tell you this as I was expecting this phone since long and don't understand how HTC can ship a new phone with such a bad radio and other bugs... On other side, it's a 5 star device but still have these bugs which are making it a 2 stars..

Thank you for having read ;-)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] djleap:
Well, no software upgrade can give you better reception. But I think you should return your Diamond for check-up, as my experience is that the reception is appr the same as my previous Nokia phone, i.e. reasonably good.

But what I hope they will improve with a radio upgrade is the problems for data connections in 3G/HSDPA mode when the signal is low, in my case this results in a one minute "radio silence" before the phone finally switches to GSM/GPRS mode.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] mrsilly:
I agree it has very poor radio, similar to how the diamond started, they will improve it over time. Mine is dropping calls in a particular place, this didn't happen with the diamond.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Pirreballo:
The radio is really bad! I remember that my iPhone had a poor radio reception but after several updates it is much improved.

I hope they'll do the same for Topaz! ;)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] jimbouk:
I have to agree my TD2 has terrible reception, my diamond wasnt brilliant but the TD2 is very poor. Hope they come out with an update soon.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] HandySpanner:
Are manufacturers obliged to put the same amount of bars up for each signal strength? Can you really compare the number of bars between different manufacturers?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] tonyh0905:
I bought my TD2 last month on a contract with T-mobile. As I have always been an Orange customer in the past I have spent the last four weeks blaming T-mobile for my lake of signal at my workplace, and poor 3g at home.....it never crossed my mind it may be the phone at fault. I love my TD2 but the poor radio performance may be a show stopper :(
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] creiz:
This is very weird. The shop I work, My boss got a blackberry (Bold) AND a PRADA II (from LG), and I got better signal than him. i must tell you tho, it's quite far inside the building, the lowest I have is 2 bars, normally it stays at 4.

But then again, even at 1 bar, I never had problem with calls, lessay it's the same quality as a Triband phone.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] P996:
The Diamond 2 has a HORRIBLE radio performance, especially 3G connections are very weak, absolutely unacceptable. I'd put the Diamond 2 at the same reception level with the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3G REALLY sucks when it comes to reception.

Yesterday, I took out my HTC Sedna (6500) out of my closet and tried it again, what a difference. I get a much better signal than with the Diamond 2 (same carrier, same position) and I won't even start comparing the Diamond 2 to the Nokia E90 or even the E75, both have excellent signal reception, especially the E90.

Regarding Blackberry: I use a 8900 Curve 2 for business, this thing really rocks regarding reception. I get a signal (of course no 3G, it has GPRS/EDGE only) almost everywhere, even when the Diamond 2 doesn't get ANY signal at all, it is really impressive.

There are however chances that the signal reception is going to improve with a FW update, it happened in the past with various HTC devices and even the Blackberry Storm I also own, has been improved substantially regarding signal reception quality with one of the latest official firmwares available.

So there is hope but of course it is a huge disappointment that HTC couldn't get it right from the start. :(
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] HandySpanner:
How are you measuring signals being "weak" and the "reception level" - by actual behaviour of the phones in use, or just comparing the bars in the UI?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] P996:
Rohde & Schwarz CMS RSM. ;) Of course also practical usage too.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] lfmdk:
temprory solution

the signal problem is very very frustrating, especially when it start to drop phone calls, it became unacceptable.

after few days playing with the TD2, I found that

1. the signal strength appears to be stronger when it stays in GPRS(G) rather then 3G (H),

2. some times when 3G signal is too weak, it will switch too GPRS, it takes about 3~5 seconds to switch, if any call comes in at that time, it will drop.

3. if TD stays in GPRS, the signal is good, even you only 1 bar sometimes, you can still may phone calls without any problem.

so I think it is a good idea to turn off the 3G unless you need to use it, so the phone stays in GPRS, by doing that, you get better signal, and longer bettery life.

to turn off 3G, go

Settings> personal>phone>Band>

select GSM for the network type.

then go ok.

by doing that you will not miss any calls, I think that's the most important thing.

meanwhile, let's wait for a radio upgrade to solve this problem once for all.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] phankhi:
Just my 2c worth..

I dont think the radio is any worse, it does the job for me and I havent had any dropouts.

Its an improved phone/pda compared to the TD1 and very happy with it so far. Even without any custom roms, I think the TD2 is very good.

no more of that calibration when you do a hard reset!!!!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] munrobasher:
Yes, the D2 radio really is pretty bad. I went down on the train to Birmingham yesterday and other people were chatting away quite happily on their phones but my reception was almost zero until I go off the train.

I configure our business phones at work - Nokia E71 is a typical device. They just seem to have better reception. Okay, so a different network but still should be better than it is.

On the subject of radio updates (the use of the name radio I find confusing as I assume it's nothing to do with the FM radio - or does it?), is there an official way of updating from T-Mobile or is it "roll your own" from HTC directly? Have HTC released an official radio update?

Also, do I infer that the radio software is separate to the WM6.1 ROM?

Cheers, Rob.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] PhilipL:
Hi

Just a few comments really regarding the radio, although I have no advice to magically improve it :(

First of all, the signal reception on the Topaz 2 is exactly the same as that on my Tytn II, so it performs the same as other HTC phones, now some may argue reception was bad on the Tytn II as well so that doesn't say a lot :(

When making comparisons with other phones a few things that can help your judgement.

1) Is another phone you are comparing reception with one that is 3G? 3G signals are more affected by walls etc and typically there are much fewer masts than with the 2G and it is quite normal that unless you can see the 3G mast you'll have less than full strength signal reported on 3G, and the 3G signal can drop very quickly even moving a smaller distance away from the mast. If you want to compare the signal with an older phone that is 2G, then on the Topaz you need to set the phone and band settings to make it connect to 2G, and when you do you'll see reception zip up.

2) The signal icons on phones can not be used to make a comparison. One dot of signal on the Topaz is equal to 46% signal strength, so while it looks like a bad signal, it is still almost half and so the scale isn't linear. The other phone you are comparing to may not be reporting signal strength at all, but an error rate or combination of signal strength and error rate. It is possible to get a very low signal but have 100% quality (i.e. no errors) which may be used to skew other indicators higher.

3) The test whether reception is good or bad can only be judged from using the phone and does it work or not, and even then dropped calls may not be due to signal strength but an incompatibility with your mobile operator. This relates to 3G and 2G hand-overs. The phone will try and maintain a 3G connection when transferring data, as this provides a faster speed and it doesn't matter if a low signal causes errors as the data can be requested again. When you make a phone call, the priority shifts to getting an error free connection to ensure the audio doesn't break up, so a low signal introducing errors on 3G will be rejected if there is a nice strong 2G mast to connect to. Your phone then has to negotiate a seamless handover from 3G to 2G while you are talking. In the UK I find this 100% reliable with Vodafone on the Topaz, but calls can drop on O2 when it attempts a switch from 3G to 2G. Newer firmware hopefully ends up fixing these issues in time.

As written by someone in this thread who was on a train when other people with phones remained talking while theirs dropped doesn't prove much, as were they on the same mobile network, and were their phones having to move between 3G and 2G or were they just 2G with much better coverage and no complications relating to switching between the two. Switching the Topaz to 2G only would result in a fairer comparison in that scenario.

Other points, the aerial is at the bottom of the phone not the top, so when you hold the phone you need to hold it higher up so as not to block the signal.

Regards

Phil
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Glasshouse Jon:
Crap Radio

In response to the previous post I can confirm that I have compared the XDA Orbit 2, Nokia 6230i and Touch Diamond 2 all with a Vodafone SIM. The XDA Orbit 2 is most similar to the TD2 yet the reception on the Orbit was considerably better than that of the TD2. Tests were all completed on the same journey home from work in the same place, at the same time of day with the same weather conditions.

My conclusion, the TD2 Radio is inferior compared to the Orbit 2 and Nokia, but you all knew that already, didn't you. (Appart from the person that posted the previous message!!)
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] PhilipL:
Hi

That is the point I was trying to make, the Nokia 6230i as far as I know is not 3G, so did you compare that with the Topaz switched to 2G to make a like for like comparison? The Nokia also doesn't have to try and accommodate antennas and radios for Wi-Fi, GPS and 3G bands, which can cause all sorts of compromises in small mobile phones.

What were you comparing, just watching the signal strength meter or actually using it for a phone call at the time? The other thing is comparing the phones on different journeys. 3G cells breath which means the coverage varies, it can shrink or increase depending on load.

My post was trying to help people be objective rather than subjective and help make like for like comparisons, no need to be sarcastic.

Regards

Phil
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] illuria38:
ehh wtf are you guys moaning about?

like have been said, are you guys comparing with the bars shown in the UI, or with an actual tester?

If your judging just from the bars in the ui and comparing that to other phones.. please go drive a car and crash yourself in a tree ;)

Anyways just FYI: with 1bar 3g im getting a stable (250ms constant ping) 120kb/s connection...

My point being that even tho it looks only to be 1 bar, it works flawlessly. So perhaps our htc phones show the *actuall* reception rather then ** normal reception + 2 bars ** like a lot of manufacturers (maybe secretly?) do.

But i guess htc is better off adjusting the UI bar meter so that it shows 5 bars when its actually 1-3, just to keep dumb people happy....
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] PhilipL:
Hi

Yes a very good point. There must be tendency for mobile phone makers to over report the signal to make their phone look better when being compared. My old Motorola phone does state in the manual you need 3 bars or more to make a reliable phone call :rolleyes: In other words 2 bars or less are really no servicel at all, and from memory it would jump from 3 bars to no signal more often than not skipping 2 and 1 bar of signal strength.

Regards

Phil
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] luca T:
Hi guys, I'm about to buy the TD2 and reading your post I got a little worried about the radio signal of this device!

I have a question for people that complained about it:

Did you complain for the quality of the calling connection?

I mean did you lose signal meanwhile you were talking or have you got bad conversation due to the low signal?
[G1 Android Development] texanman:
I am trying to install apps such as advanced task manger and TA utility and it keeps saying installation unsuccessful but will not give me a reason just error. Help? I am useing jf 1.42
[General Topics] MrTek:
Soo according the WMDEV Twitter profile (which is legit), WinMo 6.5 has hit RTM!

Anyone know a build #?

http://twitter.com/wmdev/status/1797927736
[Touch HD General] b-e-a-s-t:
Hello,

I have a Telstra Edition Touch HD T8285. I have two questions:

1. How do I get rid of the warning message that I get everytime I update my IMAP/POP email account, it warns me that I will incur a roaming charge even though I am in my home city/country...does this Telstra phone still think it is in Australia? If so how do I change this?

2. In WinMo 6.1 how do I set the polling intervals etc to emulate "push" email? i.e. how do I set the checking intervals on this phone?

Thanks in Advance for your help here!
[Touch HD General] trice1921:
I'd suggest using somthing like Seven, which will give you an experience as close to push email as you can get.
[Touch HD General] b-e-a-s-t:
Does anyone know how to get rid of that annoying warning you are roaming message in these Telstra devices?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] henryt:
Starting in the past week, my Fuze starts acting weird (symptoms include contacts not showing up, apps giving weird error messages, recently opened programs fail to appear), so I do a soft reset. It doesn't want to boot though. It freezes on the screen that says "Preparing your device for first use", or sometimes it goes all the way to the "Tap the screen to set up your Windows Mobile device". After going through the initial setup, all my settings and data in the internal memory are gone.

I thought this was a problem with the ROM I recently flashed (EnergyRom 3.0, the WinMo 6.5 one) so I flashed back to the EnergyRom 2.0 one (WinMo 6.1, was using it before without any problems, but flashed to a newer build). It's still happening so I'm guessing it's not the ROM. I'll try flashing to a different ROM anyway, but I'm skeptical it'll do anything.

Any suggestions on what to do? I bought the phone off eBay, and I'm in Canada, but if I could get it to an AT&T store, is there any chance they can do an exchange? Hopefully it won't have to come to that...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] BrandXman:
Been having fun with 6.5 after getting it loaded up, the home screen is great. I kind of think the start menu has something to be desired, big icons that scroll up and down. Well got me thinking, is there a plug-in out there, for the home screen that when flicked right or left, would move the whole "main" home menu off screen and bring up a new menu(slides in from the approate direction?). Run up and down with in that new menu, then flick again (right or left) and get yet another new menu, all of these additional menu sets either preset or set up by the user. To get back to the home screen, maybe a soft Home key or just wait a few seconds and the software shifts back to Home?

Something to ponder, talk amongst your selves.

--B
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Aegishua:
Thats a great idea, although not really suited for me and it would be extremely annoying to an extent. Because when you scroll with your thumb up/down you move slightly to the left or right.. that would trigger it and annoy most if not all people.